A	Saturday night I was downtown
C     D  A	Working for the FBI
A	Sitting in a nest of bad men
C     D   A	Whiskey bottles piling high
A	Bootlegging boozer on the west side
C     D  A	Full of people who are doing wrong
A	Just about to call up the D.A. man
C     D   A	When I heard this woman singing a song
D	A pair of forty fives made me open my eyes
E	My temperature started to rise
D	She was a long cool woman in a black dress
C           A	Just a 5’9″ beautiful ‘n’ tall
D	Just one look I was a bad mess
C           A	‘Cause that long cool woman had it all
A	I saw her heading to the table
C     D  A	Well, a tall walking big black cat
A	Charlie said, I hope that you’re able, boy
C     D   A	‘Cause I’m telling you she knows where it’s at
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A	Well, suddenly we hear the sirens
C     D  A	And everybody started to run
A	Jumping under doors and tables
C     D   A	Well, I heard somebody shooting a gun
A	Well, the D.A. was pumping my left hand
C     D   A	She was holding my right
A	Well, I told her, don’t get scared
C	‘Cause you’re gonna be spared
D	I’ve gotta be forgiven if I wanna spend my living
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